Native Americans and the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Edmunds, R. David

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“…In contrast to a Washingtonian philosophy of a gradual "civilization," postbellum reformers wished to acculturate American Indians as quickly as possible. Edmunds (2004) outlines the multipronged approach taken. Children were removed from their homes (often involuntarily) and enrolled in federally run boarding schools.…”

Section: Background On Federal Indian Policy and Assimilationmentioning

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Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy

Miller

2023

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Throughout the nineteenth century, federal Indian policy oscillated between two extreme positions: assimilation versus isolation. While scholars have often been interested in the impact of past federal policy on current levels of economic development among American Indian tribes, none have explicitly examined the influence of federal assimilation policy on long-run economic development. In this paper, I take advantage of tribal-level variation in the application of federal policies to estimate the effect of assimilation on long-run economic performance. To quantify the impact of such policies, I introduce a novel measure of cultural assimilation: the prevalence of traditional indigenous names relative to common American first names. To calculate the distribution of name types, I have gathered the names and locations for all American Indians enumerated in the 1900 United States census. After classifying each name, I calculated the reservation-specific share of non-indigenous names. I estimate the relationship between cultural assimilation in 1900 and per capita income from 1970 through 2020. I find that historical levels of assimilation are consistently associated with higher levels of per capita income in all census years. The results are robust to the inclusion of a variety of cultural and institutional controls and regional fixed effects.

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Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy

Miller

2023

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“…There is a pressing need to integrate contemporary ethnographic research on indigenous people across the U.S./Mexico border and in Hawai'i into a broad comparative framework-as, for example, Spicer (1967) and Brooks (2002a) have done for the ethnohistory of the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico. However, such an integration is not a reality but one of the horizons to which this review points (but see Cook & Lindau 2000, Edmunds 2002, Kapur 2004, Menchaca 2001, Perry 1996, Sheridan & Parezo 1996.…”

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Recent Ethnographic Research on North American Indigenous Peoples

Strong

2005

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This review article addresses the following question: Given the transformed social, political, and intellectual conditions for ethnographic research among indigenous peoples in North America, what forms has such research come to take at the turn of the twenty-first century? The review considers significant trends and innovations in research sites and topics, research methodologies, theoretical orientations, and forms of representation. It also assesses the distinctive strengths and limitations posed by ethnographic research for scholars engaging with significant dimensions of contemporary indigenous life, including struggles for rights, resources, recognition, and language vitality in both the national and international arenas; the repatriation and sovereignty movements; the development of tribal casinos, tourist complexes, cultural centers, and media outlets; continued social and economic marginalization of many indigenous peoples; and challenges posed by neoliberalism and globalization to tribal governments and economies. 253 Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2005.34:253-268. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven on 07/10/14. For personal use only.

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A Colonial Settler Nation and A Slaveholding One

Harvey¹

2007

Whiteness and Morality

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Native Americans and the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy

Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy

Recent Ethnographic Research on North American Indigenous Peoples

A Colonial Settler Nation and A Slaveholding One

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